Tension-regulating device for loom-shuttles



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M. MEROIBR.

TENSION REGULATING DEVIGE FOR LOOM SHUTTLES.

No. 405,673. Patented June 18 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATHIAS MERCIER, OF BIDDEFORD, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO HAROLD KELLY, OF SAME PLACE, AND JOHN P. KELLY, OF SACO, MAINE.

TENSION-REGULATING DEVICE FOR LOOM-SHUTTLESa SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,673, dated June 18, 1889. Application filed January 12, 1889- Serial No. 296,150- (N modeh) To all whom it may concern: may be arranged in a case having bottom g Be it known that I, MATHIAs MEROIER, of and ears it, between which said bottom 9 and Biddeford, in the county of York and State of weight the thread passes, as shown in Fig. 3. Maine, have invented certain new and useful In order that the tension-weight may thread 5 5 Improvements inTension-RegulatingDevices itself automatically, I make the free end of for Loom-Shuttles; and I do hereby declare the weight 'slope downward, as shown at cl;

that the following is a full, clear, and exact from the top and upward from the bottom for description of the invention, which will enaa short distance, as seen at e in Fig. 2. The ble others skilled in the art to which it apfriction of the thread between the weight 0 5o pertains to make and use the same, reference and the bottom of the shuttle or the plate 9 being had to the accompanying drawings, and gives the tension, which is regulated by using to letters of reference marked thereon, which a lighter'or heavier weight, as required. The

form a part of this specification. tension-weight threads itself automatically as My invention relates to tension-weights for follows: The thread from the spindle is placed 5 5 r5 shuttles, and is designed to secure a uniform over the end of the eye 1', of course passing and perfect tension, and one which may be directly over the tension-weight. It is then automatically threaded. sucked through the eye of the shuttle, and

It consists of a Weight having one free end, as it is drawn taut it will descend over the under which the thread is drawn before it inclined face d of the weight, over the end, 60

passes out through the eye of the shuttlebe drawn under the inclined bottom 0, and

body, and having the free end beveled. thence under theweight to the position shown Referring to the accompanying drawings, in Fig. 1. Figure l is a top plan showing my said inven- Having thus descrlbed my invention andits tion in place in a shuttle; Fig. 2, a cross-secuse, what I claim, and desire to secure by Let- 6 2 5 tion of Fig. 1 on line 1 1, on a larger scale; ters Patent of the United States, is-

and Fig. 3, a view of my improved tension de- 1. The combination, with a shuttle-body, of

vice removed from the shuttle. a tensionwveight pivoted at one end within The same letters refer to like part-s. the shuttle-body, and having its free end bev- My invention may be thus described: eled, substantially as set forth. 7o

In a shuttle a, having a spindle b and eye 2. The combination, with a shuttle-body, of

'i, made and arranged in any of the usual a tension-weight having one end free and bevways, I place a Weight 0, under which the eled and the other loosely held in a case, and thread j from the spindle is drawn before it said case attached to the shuttle-body, subpasses through the eye. The tension-weight stantially as set forth. 75 3 5 0 may be made in a variety of different forms, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as and may be attached to the shuttle-body by my own I affix my signature in presence of two a pivot or clasp; but it must have one free witnesses.

end, which does not extend quite to the side MATHIAS MEROIER. of the shuttle, as shown in Fig. 2. Inasmuch Witnesses: 40 as wood wears rapidly, a metal plate may be M. H. KELLY,

set directly under the weight, or the weight CHAS. C. HODSDON. 

